Reconstruction

2. Southern vigilante group that set out to destroy the Republican Party
5. the period of rebuilding the south that occurred from 1865-1877
7. withdraw, formally, from something
8. A system where land owner divided their land and assigned each head of household a few acres along with seeds and tools. They were allowed to keep a small portion of the crop for themselves but most when to the landowner.
10. An agency of the war department set up in 1865 to aid African Americans freed from emancipation

1. Northerners who moved south after the war
3. no one can be kept from voting because of race or color
4. prevented states from denying rights and privileges to any US citizen
6. White southerners who joined the Republican Party.
9. Johnson Vetoed Bill of Rights and Freedmen's Bureau. He was democrat and anti-slavery. He was Abraham Lincolns sucessor.